From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 3 23:41:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA20134 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:41:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA20128 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.7.3) id IAA04818; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 08:40:55 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199711040740.IAA04818@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? In-Reply-To: <3096.878596384@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 3, 97 02:33:04 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 08:40:54 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > Unless there are any truly serious objections, I'm going to starting > campaigning vigorously in core for the complete removal of this rather > useless collection of games which has gotten us in trouble not once > but now TWICE upon receipt of a letter from Hasbro's legal council > stating that we are violating the trademark on "Boggle", a Hasbro > game. Couldn't we just shot the US lawyers one by one ?? THAT would take care of alot of this shit, sigh... > Adding this to the fact that the "games" there are antiquated and > probably never actually played by anyone suggests, to me, a strong > need to simply nuke the bloody things once and for all and stop > distributing games from anywhere but /usr/ports/games (where fortune, > arguably one of the few "games" still in wide use, could easily be > moved). Remove games and put fortune in /usr/bin ?? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..